Day

Session1

A-sessions (9 technical seesions) Room POTSDAM I.

B-Sessions (9 technical sessions) Room POTSDAM III.

Start

End

14:00

18:00

DAY 0 (Sunday 11): NDE/NDT Workshop (Room POTSDAM III.)

14:00

14:20

NDT Workshop Opening – Steve Sandstrum

14:20

14:40

ID96: Dominique Gueugnaut - ENGIE - Research & Technologies Division - CRIGEN - ULTRASONIC PHASED ARRAY INSPECTION OF POLYETHYLENE DAMAGED PIPES WITH CALIBRATED FAULTS

14:40

15:00

ID37: Dr. Stefan Kremling - SKZ - German Plastics Center - POTENTIALS OF TERAHERTZ TECHNOLOGY FOR THE INSPECTION OF PLASTIC PIPES

15:00

15:20

ID85: Mats Bergman - Inspecta Sweden AB - DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY OF PE JOINTS

15:20

15:40

15:40

16:00

ID33: Joerg Wermelinger - Georg Fischer Piping Systems - LONG TERM INFLUENCE OF DEFECTS IN BUTT FUSION JOINTS ON PE100 PIPES AND NDT DETECTION OF THEM

16:00

16:20

ID25: Dr. Mike Troughton - TWI - DEVELOPMENT OF FLAW ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA FOR WELDED JOINTS IN PE PIPES

16:20

16:40

ID181: Peter Postma - Kiwa Technology - DETERMINING ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA FOR NON-DESTRUCTIVE TESTING OF PE ELECTROFUSION SOCKETS

16:40

17:00

17:00

18:00

Sunday

NDT Workshop

ID186: Robert Stakenborghs - Evisive, Inc - INTERACTION OF MICROWAVE ENERGY WITH HDPE AND ITS USES FOR INSPECTING THERMAL FUSIONS AND BASE MATERIAL

Coffee Break Panel Discussion (Moderator: Steve Sandstrum)

9:30

18:00

DAY 1 (Monday 12): Conference Opening and Technical Sessions

9:30

10:40

Conference Opening

9:30

9:40

9:40

9:55

9:55

10:10

10:10

10:25

10:25

10:40

10:40

11:40

PPXVIII Opening - Zoran Davidovski

Opening

Plastics Pipe Institute (PPI) - Tony Radosewski - ADDRESSING GLOBAL COMPLEXITY

Monday

10:40

The European Plastic Pipes and Fittings Association (TEPPFA) - Tony Calton - ID42: THE EUROPEAN PLASTIC PIPES INDUSTRY – RECYCLING COMMITMENT PE 100+ Association - Hans Pierik - NEW TOOLS TO SUPPORT THE EXPANSION OF THE PE100 INDUSTRY PVC4 Pipe - Fabio Bernardi - ID183: PVC4PIPES TRAINING AND PRESENTATION PACKAGES

Global Session ID24: Zoran Davidovski - Pipelife - MAIN DRIVERS AND BARRIERS FOR PLASTIC PIPES IN EUROPE

11:10

Global ID57: Claudia Topalli - The European Plastic Pipes and Fittings Association (TEPPFA) - THE LINK BETWEEN POLITICS AND TECHNICAL METHODS: THE PEF CASE APPLIED TO PLASTIC PIPING SYSTEMS

11:10

11:40

11:40

12.00

12:00

13:20

1A - Raw Materials (4) - ID: 40, 18, 151, 112 - Mohana Murali Adhyatmabhattar

12:20

ID40: Emanuele Burgin - Basell Poliolefine Italia s.r.l. - INCREASED INTERNAL PRESSURE RESISTANCE POLYPROPYLENE (MRS 12.5 = PP125): HOW NEW POLYMER DEVELOPMENTS HAVE LED TO STEP-CHANGE PERFORMANCES AND THE IMPLICATIONS FOR PP-R APPLICATIONS

12:00

Coffee Break 1B - Polyolefin Pipe Processing (4) - IDs: 12, 163, 87, 126 - Yogesh Kumar

ID12: Dr. Henning Stieglitz - battenfeld-cincinnati Germany - THE NEW DIMENSION OF PIPE EXTRUSION

ID151: Alex Stolarz - Dow Europe GmbH - ADVANCED CHEMISTRY IN PE POLYMERISATION ALLOW NEW POSSIBILITIES FOR PE-RT TYPE I RESIN

ID: 163: Sayaka Yamada - Mechanical Engineering Research Laboratory, KOBE STEEL, LTD. - PERFORMANCE OF A COUNTER-ROTATING CONTINUOUS MIXER FOR BI-MODAL HIGH DENSITY POLYETHYLENE

13:00

ID112: Dr. Gerd Mannebach - LyondellBasell Industries - NEW PE-RT TYPE II MATERIAL FROM INNOVATIVE CATALYST SYSTEM

ID87: Li+ Xing - Zhejiang Shuanglin Machinery Co.,Ltd. - FIBER REINFORCED LARGE DIAMETER POLYETHYLENE WINDING PIPE

13:00

13:20

ID18: Vivek Rohatgi - Chevron Phillips Chemical - COMPARISON OF IN-LINE COMPOUNDING VS. PRECOMPOUNDED RESIN ON POLYETHYLENE PIPE PERFORMANCE

ID126: Dongyu Fang - Borouge Pte Ltd - NOVEL POLYOLEFIN SOLUTIONS – INCREASING PRODUCTION RATE OF PIPES AND FITTINGS WITH SUPERIOR PROPERTIES

13.20

14.20

14:20

16:00

12:20

12:40

1A/ 1B

Monday

12:40

Monday

14:20

14:40

14:40

15:00

15:00

15:20

Lunch sponsored by 2A - Rehabilitation (5) ID: 36, 93, 101, 174, 179 - Dan Currence ID179: Derek Muckle - Radius Systems Limited - CLOSE-FIT PIPE LINING WITHOUT THE MACHINES (Bad manuscript format) ID93: Jun Abe - Osaka Gas Co., Ltd. - VARIOUS APPROACHES TO THE IMPROVEMENT OF POLYETHYLENE PIPING CONSTRUCTION QUALITY IN OSAKA GAS

2A/ 2B

ID174: Luis Aguiar - Miami-Dade Water and Sewer Department - LARGE DIAMETER HDPE SLIPLINING – WHERE EXPERIENCE MATTERS

2B - Standardization (5) - ID: 154, 139, 110, 170, 92 - Claudia Topalli ID154: ZhanJie Wang - China Plastics Piping Association (CPPA) - REVIEW OF QUALITY, APPLICATION AND DEVELOPMENT FOR PE PRESSURE PIPE IN CHINA ID139: Steve Sandstrum - Industry Professional - POLYPROPYLENE PIPE: AN EVOLVING MARKET ID110: David Chrystie-Lowe - Exova, Salford, UK - ASSURED QUALITY OF BUTT FUSION AND ELECTROFUSION WELDING OF PE100 PIPE

15:20

Monday

15:40

15:40

16:00

16:00

16:20

16:20

18:00

16:20

16:40

16:40

ID36: Frans Scholten MSc. - Kiwa Technology - RESIDUAL QUALITY OF EXCAVATED UPVC GAS AND WATER DISTRIBUTION PIPELINES ID101: Edward Alan Ambler - City of Casselberry - PIPE BURSTING ASBESTOS CEMENT PIPE IN COMPLIANCE WITH ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY’S REGULATIONS AND SCIENTIFIC DATA COLLECTION ON THE PROJECT Coffee Break 3A - Case Study-Industrial Applications (5) - ID: 67, 116, 145, 162, 177 - Pierre Belloir ID145: Andrew Wedgner - Borouge Pte. - THE WAYANG WINDU GEOTHERMAL POWER PLANT - FIRST EVER USE OF PE100 FOR A CONDENSATE PIPELINE ID177: Yogesh Kumar - Dura-Line Corporation - LOCATABLE PIPE TECHNOLOGY THROUGH GLOBAL COLLABORATION

17:00

3A/ 3B

ID162: Wes Long - Performance Pipe - ADVANCED APPLICATIONS FOR HDPE PIPES WITH NEW PE-RT MATERIAL ID116: Dr. Marco Michelotti - Idrotherm 2000 - RECENT PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS IN PIPELINES WITH ADVANCED GRADES OF POLYOLEFINS ID67: White Jee - Sasol Chemicals North America LLC - REACHING NEW FRONTIERS AND MAINTAINING MOMENTUM IN THE PLASTICS PIPING MARKET

ID170: John Fishburne - Toughwater Fishburne Pipeline Management and Engineering, PLLC - CHAIRMAN’S REVIEW OF THE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS FOR U.S. PIPE STANDARD AWWA/ANSI C906-15 ID92: Henk Meerman - Tessenderlo Group - NEW EN STANDARD PVC-ORIENTED PLASTIC PIPING SYSTEMS

3B - Processing Efficiency (5) - ID: 50, 107, 158, 165, 185 - Jan Venter ID158: Helmuth Rijnhart - Rollepaal B.V. - SAVING MATERIAL IN PLASTIC PIPE PRODUCTION ID50: Prof. Dr. Jens Liebhold - KraussMaffei Technologies GmbH - NEW POTENTIALS OF LIGTHWEIGTH STUCTURES FOR PIPE EXTRUSION PRODUCTS – ALLPLIANCES OF REINFORCEMENTS FROM SHORT TO ENDLESS FIBERS ID185: Giorgio Santella - Piovan Group - SUSTAINABLE MATERIAL HANDLING SOLUTIONS FOR A MODERN PIPE PRODUCTION PROCESS

17:00

17:20

17:20

17:40

17:40

18:00

20:00

22:30

Welcome Reception at Wasserwerk (Bus transfer from Hotel InterContinental at 19:30)

9:00

17:10

DAY 2 (Tuesday 13): Technical Sessions and 5-Minutes Poster Session

ID165: Dr. Jan Petermann - iNOEX GmbH - TERAHERTZ MEASUREMENT TECHNOLOGY FOR PIPE EXTRUSION ID107: André Nijland MSc. - Wavin Overseas BV - BI-ORIENTED PVC EXTRUSION: STRETCHING PIPE PERFORMANCE

9:00

11:20

9:00

9:20

9:20

9:40

Tuesday

10:00

10:20

10:40

11:00

4A - Sustainability (7) 4B - Test Methods (7) - ID: 175, 149, 166, 30, 48, 22, 38 - ID: 125, 31, 77, 97, 64, 121, 106 - Tony Calton - Doug Keller ID175: Reinhold Lang ID125: Frans Scholten MSc. - Institute of Polymeric Materials and Testing Johannes Kepler - Kiwa Technology University Linz - PREDICTING THE LIFETIME OF PE50 GAS PIPES UNDER POINT - QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT OF IN-PLANT AND POSTLOADING USE PE RECYCLATES FOR PIPE APPLICATIONS

9:40

ID149: Michael Pluimer PhD. - Crossroads Engineering Services - LONG-TERM PERFORMANCE OF CORRUGATED HDPE PIPES MANUFACTURED WITH RECYCLED MATERIALS FOR RAILROAD APPLICATIONS

10:00

ID30: John M. Kurdziel, P.E. - Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc. - THE EFFECTIVE USE OF RECYCLED MATERIALS FOR PLASTIC PIPE

10:20

4A/ 4B

ID166: Michael Pluimer PhD. - Crossroads Engineering Services - PREDICTING SERVICE LIFE FOR RECYCLED PE MATERIALS VIA THE UNNOTCHED CONSTANT LIGAMENT STRESS (UCLS) TEST

ID31: Takehiro Fujii - Shinwa Sangyo Co. - COMPARISON BETWEEN STRESS RUPTURE TEST AND HOT WATER CIRCULATION TEST CONSIDERING ACTUAL OPERATING CONDITION OF PE PIPES FOR HOT WATER APPLICATION ID77: Fu Zhimin - Goody Science & Technology Co.,Ltd. - ASSESSMENT OF FUSION DEGREE OF UNPLASTICIZED POLY(VINYLCHLORIDE)(PVC-U) PRODUCTS USING TORQUE RHEOMETER ID97: Dominique Gueugnaut - ENGIE Lab – CRIGEN - THE “NOTCHED CYLINDRICAL BARS UNDER CONSTANT LOAD TEST” (NCBT) FOR ASSESSING THE RESISTANCE TO CRACK INITIATION OF PE100 AND PE100 RC: DETERMINATION OF THE INITIATION TIME

10:40

ID48: Bruce Hollands - Uni-Bell PVC Pipe Association - SUSTAINABILITY OF PVC (VINYL) PIPE: A COMPREHENSIVE ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW OF PVC PIPE

ID64: Tom Marti - Hannam University - ISO 13477 S4 TESTING OF AWWA C900 PVC PIPE

11:00

ID22: Peter Sejersen - VITO - COMPARATIVE LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT OF A PVC-U RAIN GUTTER SYSTEM VERSUS A SYSTEM MADE FROM GALVANIZED STEEL

ID121: Dr. David Becerril García - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), - QUALITY CONTROL TESTING OF JOINTS IN GRAVITY FLOW PLASTIC PIPES

11:20

ID38: Jeroen Wassenaar PhD. - Total Research & Technology Feluy - LESS IS MORE: POLYPROPYLENE MATERIALS FOR SEWERAGE & DRAINAGE PIPES WITH REDUCED ENERGY AND CARBON FOOTPRINTS

ID106: Haemi Pollett - Uponor North America - SUMMARY OF THE TECHNICAL DETAILS AND IMPORTANCE OF THE NEW METHOD OF DETERMINING “RESISTANCE TO OCCASIONAL FREEZE-THAW CYCLING OF PEX” AND “ENVIRONMENTAL ABUSE”

11:20

11:40

11:40

13:00

11:40

12:00

Coffee Break 5A - Jointing (4) - ID: 184, 55, 62, 152 - Sarah Patterson ID184: Julian West - Trelleborg - THE EVOLUTION OF ELASTOMERIC JOINTS IN PLASTIC PIPELINE SYSTEMS ID55: Gerry Groen - Uponor Infra - PE4710 MITERED ELBOW DESIGN JUSTIFICATION BY FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS

12:00

12:20

5A/ 5B

Tuesday 12:20

12:40

12:40

13:00

13:00

14:00

14:00

16:00

14:00

14:20

ID62: Dr. Jan H. Sällström - SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden - WATER TIGHTNESS OF FLANGE JOINTS AT VALVES – Full scale experiments and finite element analysis ID152: Ernest Lever - Gas Technology Institute - THE EFFECTS OF HEAVY HYDROCARBON PERMEATION ON POLYETHYLENE PIPE

5B - PVC Pipe Design (4) - ID: 59, 34, 69, 60 - Fabio Bernardi ID59: Dr. Steven Folkman - Utah State University - A PROPOSED PROCEDURE FOR PVC PIPE TEMPERATURE DE-RATING IN NORTH AMERICA ID34: Frans Alferink - Wavin Overseas - THE EXPERIENCE WITH THE USE OF UPVC PIPES IN VARIOUS BURIED APPLICATIONS ID69: Chen Jianchun - Zhejiang Zhongcai Pipes Science and Technology Co., Ltd - A NOVEL CYCLONE SINGLE STACK SYSTEM FOR BUILDING DRAINAGE ID60: Dr. Steven Folkman - Utah State University - A SIMPLE DESIGN PROCEDURE FOR PVC PIPE TO ACCOUNT FOR CYCLIC PRESSURE LOADING

Lunch 6A - Best Practices (6) - ID: 95, 84, 66, 102, 141, 153 - Monica de la Cruz ID95: Dominique Gueugnaut - ENGIE Lab – CRIGEN - RESEARCH PROGRAM FOR ASSESSING SEISMIC RISKS ON POLYETHYLENE GAS PIPELINES

14:20

14:40

ID84: Ian Aldridge - National Grid Gas - ASSET MANAGEMENT OF POLYETHYLENE GAS NETWORKS

14:40

15:00

ID66: Robert LeHunt - LeHunt & Associates Pty Ltd - 21 YEARS OF PIPELINE TRAINING – THE LESSONS LEARNT

6B - Drinking Water (6) - ID: 23, 44, 81, 148, 131, 150 - Patrik Schneider ID23: Dr. Peter Mercea - FABES GmbH - MODELING MIGRATION FROM PLASTIC PIPES INTO DRINKING WATER ID44: Dr Chris Howick - INOVYN Chlorvinyls - REVIEW OF REGULATIONS WHICH ENSURE THE SAFETY OF PIPE MATERIALS: HOW PVC-U PIPES APPLY ID81: Dipl Ing. Herbert Terwyen - Basell Polyolefine GmbH - INVESTIGATIONS ON THE BEHAVIOR OF PE100 GRADES IN CONTACT WITH CHLORINE DIOXIDE

6A/ 6B

Tuesday 15:20

ID102: Nick Mark - ControlPoint - BIG DATA, BIG DIFFERENCE

ID148: Dr. Amaia Bastero - Dow Chemical Ibérica - EFFECT OF DIFFERENT CHLORINATED MEDIA TO PE PIPE MATERIALS

15:40

ID141: Greg Scoby P.E. - Independent consultant - GENERIC ELECTRO FUSION PROCEDURES DEVELOPED BY THE PLASTIC PIPE INSTITUTE – MUNICIPAL ADVISORY BOARD

15:40

16:00

ID153: Ernest Lever - Gas Technology Institute - REDUCING OPERATIONAL RISK IN VINTAGE PLASTIC DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS

ID131: Márton Bredács - Polymer Competence Center - IMPLEMENTATION OF A NEW CHLORINE DIOXIDE DEVICE FOR ACCELERATED AGING OF POLYOLEFIN PIPE MATERIALS ID150: Dr. Jeroen Oderkerk - Borealis AG - A COMBINA TION OF ACCELERATED TEST METHODS TO EVALUATE NEW GENERATION RESINS FOR DISINFECTANT RESISTANT POLYETHYLENE PIPES

16:00

16:20

16:20

17:10

16:20

16:25

ID21: Dr. Karin Jacobson - Swerea KIMAB - WHY IS IT NECESSARY TO SCRAPE THE PIPES PRIOR TO ELECTROFUSION - IS THERE REALLY AN OXIDE SKIN?

16:25

16:30

ID90: Takehiro Fujii - Shinwasangyo Co., Ltd. - LATEST TECHNOLOGY OF SADDLE SCRAPER FOR POLYETHYLENE PIPE

16:30

16:35

ID47: Mitsuaki Tokiyoshi - High Stiffness Polyethylene Pipes Association - STUDY FOR LONG TERM EVALUATION OF GLASS FIBER REINFORCED POLYETHYLENE PIPE AND FITTINGS

16:35

16:40

ID155: Mieke Vanhoof - Kuraray (EVAL Europe N.V.) - BENEFITS OF MULTILAYER PIPE SYSTEMS WITH AN EVAL™ BARRIER LAYER

16:40

16:45

ID71: Chen Guanby - Wuhan Kingbull Economic Development Co., Ltd - THE INFLUENCE OF ß-CRYSTAL CONTENT IN PP-RCT MATERIALS AND CHECKING CALCULATION OF THE TEST PRESSURE OF PIPE

15:00

15:20

Tuesday 16:45

16:50

Coffee Break - 5 min Poster Session of top 10 posters - Andrew Wedgner and Jean Francois Greiner

5-Minute Poster Session

ID61: Hiroto Taguchi - Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd. - EVALUATION OF THE RESISTANCE TO THIRD PARTY ATTACKS OF PLASTIC PIPES

16:50

16:55

ID123: Ernst van der Stok MSc. - Kiwa Technology - THE EFFECT OF RESIDUAL STRESSES AND EXTERNAL EFFECTS ON THE FRACTURE BEHAVIOUR OF PVC PIPES

16:55

17:00

ID133: Ernst van der Stok MSc. - Kiwa Technology - THE REMAINING QUALITY OF THE PVC GAS GRID - RESULTS OF 10 YEARS OF ON-GOING RESEARCH

17:05

ID108: Pavel Hutar Prof., PhD - Institute of Physics of Materials - RESIDUAL STRESS DISTRIBUTION IN THE EXTRUDED POLYOLEFIN PIPES

17:05

17:10

ID168: Joerg Fischer - Johannes Kepler Universität Linz - Institute of Polymeric Materials and Testing - A NOVEL PROCEDURE FOR CHARACTERIZING FATIGUE CRACK GROWTH IN CRB SPECIMENS via AN OPTICAL TECHNIQUE

20:00

23:30

GALA DINNER Motto: "The Golden Twenties" in Hotel InterContinental (Room POTSDAM I-III.)

8:30

17:20

DAY 3 (Wednesday 14): Technical Sessions and Closing

8:30

10:10

7A - Case Study - Water Applications (5) - ID: 46, 86, 88, 113, 164 - Camille Rubeiz

8:50

ID46: Alireza Sahaf Amin - Vahid Industrial Group - THE UFH/C SYSTEM WITH PE-XA PIPES IS A PERFECT SUSTAINABLE SOLUTION IN A HUGE MOSQUE PROJECT

17:00

8:30

8:50

Wednesday

9:10

9:30

9:10

9:30

9:50

7A/ 7B

ID86: Zhou Minhong - Jiangsu Hippo Plastics Co., Ltd - THE APPLICATION OF RAINWATER HARVESTING TECHNIQUE IN THE PROJECT OF JIANGSU FACTORY ID88: Ben Hai Yuan - Quan’en Group - THE APPLICATION OF PVC PIPES AND FITTINGS IN THE SOUTH-TONORTH WATER DIVERSION PROJECT ID113: Hiroyuki Nishimura - Japan PVC Pipe and Fittings Association - EVALUATION OF EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE OF PVC PIPES FOR WATER DISTRIBUTION IN JAPAN

7B - Structured Wall (5) - ID: 27, 49, 13, 70, 128 - Christian Apel ID27: Jim Goddard - JimGoddard3, LLC - CORRUGATED POLYETHYLENE PIPE USED IN MINING APPLICATIONS; THEIR COMPLIANCE WITH SPECIFICATIONS AND ANTICIPATED DESIGN LIFE ID49: Zhang Tianjun - Harbin Starway Pipping Technology Co., Ltd - STRUCTURAL WALL MULTILAYER COMPOSITE PE PIPE ID13: C. B. Dandekar - Rex Polyextrusion Pvt. Ltd. - ADVANCING OF PLASTIC CORRUGATED PIPE SYSTEMS IN INDIA IN LAST TWO DECADES ID70: Nan Li - Shanghai Banzan Macromolecule Material Co., Ltd - THE STUDY ON LONG-TERM RESISTANCE TO LIQUID MEDIA IMMERSION OF ADHESIVE-COATED STEEL TAPES APPLIED IN METAL REINFORCED POLYETHYLENE SPIRAL CORRUGATED PIPE FOR UNDERGROUND SEWER

9:50

10:10

10:10

10:30

ID164: Herbert Adam - Asahi/America, Inc - SODIUM HYPOCHLORITE DOSING FOR ZEBRA MUSSEL ABATEMENT USING DOUBLE CONTAINED ADVANCED PE Coffee Break

8B - PVC Pipe Processing (4) - adv ID51 to paper ID: 100, 52, 161, 51 - Mark Heathcote ID100: Dr. Stefan Fokken - Baerlocher GmbH - UPDATE ON PVC STABILIZATION FOR PIPES – COMPARISON AND TRENDS

8A - Fittings (4) - ID: 15, 157, 73, 178 - Bruce Hollands

10:30

11:50

10:30

10:50

ID15: Dr. Maarten Kruijer - Pipelife Corporate R&D - DESIGN OF PLASTIC SEWAGE PRODUCTS IN PVC

11:11

ID157: Rob Spekreijse - Rollepaal - TOTAL OVERVIEW OF DEVELOPMENTS IN PVC-O IN SIZE AND COUPLERS.

10:50

8A/ 8B

Wednesday

ID128: Sergey Shalyapin - Polyplastic Group - REINFORCED TWIN WALL CORRUGATED PIPES: THE NEXT EVOLUTION IN SEWER EFFICIENCY

ID52: Dr. Mario Berna - Reagens S.p.a - NEW TRENDS IN STABILIZERS FOR PVC PIPE

11:30

ID73: Zhang Wei, Wei Ruoqi - China Sinopec Beijing Research Institute of Chemical Industry - UNDERGROUND ENGINEERING STRESS ANALYSIS OF PLASTIC INSPECTION CHAMBERS

ID161: Robert Kwapisz - Rheogistics LLC - MECHANICAL STABILIZATION OF RIGID PVC COMPOSITIONS

11:30

11:50

ID178: Vilnis Puce - Polyplastic Group - INSPECTION CHAMBERS AND MANHOLES FOR SEWER SYSTEMS – YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW

ID51: Joaquín Lahoz Castillo - CEIS, s.l. - LONGITUDINAL CRACK IN LARGE PVC-U PRESSURE PIPES. PIPE GELATION INFLUENCE. CASE STUDY DISCUSION (I).

11:50

13:00

Lunch

13:00

14:40

13:00

13:20

11:11

9A - Large Diameter Pressure Pipes (5) - ID: 63, 89, 20, 39, 41 - Norbert Jansen ID63: Ingemar Bjorklund - IBCO - CHALLENGES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE MARKET FOR LARGE DIAMETER PE PIPES FOR MARINE INSTALLATIONS

9B - Multilayer Pipes (5) - ID 120, 159, 132, 14, 180 - Cristian Hedesiu ID120: Dipl Ing Udo Pappler - OFI Technologie & Innovation GmbH - POLYPROPYLENE MULTI-LAYER-PIPES - 100 YEAR LIFETIME ASSESSMENT USING LINEAR ELASTIC FRACTURE MECHANICS

13:20

13:40

9A/ 9B

Wednesday 13:40

14:00

14:00

14:20

14:20

14:40

14:40

15:00

15:00

17:20

10A - Slow Crack Growth (7) - ID: 58, 78, 138, 143, 124, 58, 117 - Hiroyuki Nishimura

15:20

15:40

ID78: Dr. Suleyman Deveci - Borouge Pte. Ltd - EVALUATING STRAIN HARDENING (SH) AND CRACKED ROUND BAR (CRB) TEST METHODS WITH RESPECT TO MOLECULAR STRUCTURE OF MATERIALS AND CORRELATION TO NOTCHED PIPE TEST (NPT)

15:40

16:00

ID138: Dr. Andreas Frank - Polymer Competence Center Leoben (PCCL) GmbH - LIFETIME PREDICTION OF PE100 AND PE100-RC PIPES BASED ON SLOW CRACK GROWTH RESISTANCE

16:00

16:20

ID143: Carl F. Baker, P.E. - The Dow Chemical Company - PENT STUDY OF CROSS-LINKED POLYETHYLENE PIPE RESINS

15:20

ID159: Rob Spekreijse - Rollepaal BV - MULTI LAYER FOAM CORE (MLFC) PIPE BECOMES A STANDARD PIPE, WORLD WIDE ID132: Andrey Shmelev - Radius-Kelit Infrastructure - FLEXIBLE PRE-INSULATED THERMOPLASTIC REINFORCED PIPES FOR CITY HEAT NETWORK ID14: Yuji Higuchi PhD. - Osaka Gas Co., Ltd - DEVELOPMENT OF THE RING FATIGUE TESTING METHOD FOR COMPOSITE PIPES ID180: Dr. Anton Vasilenko - LyondellBasell - FLEXIBLE PLASTIC SOLUTION FOR DISTRICT HEATING PIPES

Coffee Break

ID118: Dr. Florian Arbeiter - Montanuniversitaet Leoben - FAST COMPARISON OF DIFFERENT POLYMERIC PIPE MATERIALS: EXTENDING THE USE OF THE CYCLIC CRB-TEST (ISO 18489)

15:00

Wednesday

ID89: Dragisa Dubocanin - Reinert-Ritz GmbH - WATER PIPELINE FROM TURKEY TO CYPRUS - 1,600 MM DIAMETER POLYETHYLENE 100 PIPELINE AND ITS FLANGE-TECHNOLOGY SOLUTION ID20: Miroslav Stanimirov - Pipelife Norge AS - LONG LENGTH HDPE PIPES FROM NORWAY – FROM PROBLEM TO A SUCCESS STORY ID39: Predrag Micic - Qenos Pty Ltd - ELECTROFUSION JOINING PERFORMANCE OF VERY LARGE PRESSURE PIPES PRODUCED WITH MFR5